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en-UShttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Police Threat Is Too Highhttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/12/the-police-threat-is-too
Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:07:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25299@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Paul+Craig+Roberts&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts</strong></a></p>
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<p>The hypocrisy of American police is beginning to bother even law and order conservatives. The New York Police Department is rivaling the black community in Ferguson in keeping alive the murders of their community members. We are constantly reminded of how dangerous it is to be a police officer. </p>
<p>A total of 50 police officers were reportedly killed last year in the &#8220;line of duty,&#8221; but the police themselves managed to kill 1,029 Americans during the same time period, most of whom were unarmed and innocent of wrongdoings. In other words, any encounter between the public and the police is more than 20 times more dangerous for the public than for the police.</p>
<p>That should raise questions about the absence of restraint on the ability of police to use deadly force as a first resort. Yet authorities and white communities invariably defend police violence against the public.</p>
<p>If Americans had half-decent educations, Americans would know that power comes from precedent. The police, like the executive branch, have now established themselves above the law. The laws that apply to the public do not apply to police, US presidents, presidential appointees, NSA, and CIA.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/12/the-police-threat-is-too#more25299">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/12/the-police-threat-is-too">Original post</a></small></p></div>Paul Craig Roberts

The hypocrisy of American police is beginning to bother even law and order conservatives. The New York Police Department is rivaling the black community in Ferguson in keeping alive the murders of their community members. We are constantly reminded of how dangerous it is to be a police officer.

A total of 50 police officers were reportedly killed last year in the “line of duty,” but the police themselves managed to kill 1,029 Americans during the same time period, most of whom were unarmed and innocent of wrongdoings. In other words, any encounter between the public and the police is more than 20 times more dangerous for the public than for the police.

That should raise questions about the absence of restraint on the ability of police to use deadly force as a first resort. Yet authorities and white communities invariably defend police violence against the public.

If Americans had half-decent educations, Americans would know that power comes from precedent. The police, like the executive branch, have now established themselves above the law. The laws that apply to the public do not apply to police, US presidents, presidential appointees, NSA, and CIA.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/12/the-police-threat-is-too#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25299Charlie Hebdo and Tsarnaev’s Trial: Cui bono?http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-and-tsarnaev-s
Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:55:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25297@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Paul+Craig+Roberts&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts</strong></a></p>
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<p><code><strong>UPDATE-3</strong>: Well known writers <strong>Thierry Meyssan</strong> and <strong>Kevin Barrett</strong> see the &#8220;terrorist&#8221; attach on <em>Charlie Hebdo</em> as a false flag attack. See <a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article186441.html">here</a> and <a href="http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/10/392426/Planted-ID-card-exposes-Paris-false-flag">here</a>.</code> </p>
<p><code><strong>UPDATE-2</strong>: According to news reports, one of the accused in the attack on Charlie Hebdo when hearing that he was being sought for the crime <a href="https://www.intellihub.com/18-year-old-charlie-hebdo-suspect-surrenders-police-claims-alibi/">turned himself in</a> to police with an ironclad alibi.</code></p>
<p><code><strong>UPDATE-1</strong>: According to news reports, police found the ID of Said Kouachi <a href="http://www.wfmz.com/shooting-at-french-satirical-magazine-office/30571524">at the scene</a> of the <em><em>Charlie Hebdo</em></em> shooting. Does this sound familiar? Remember, authorities claimed to have found the undamaged passport of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers among the massive pulverized ruins of the twin towers. <br />
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Once the authorities discover that the stupid Western peoples will believe any transparent lie, the authorities use the lie again and again. <br />
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The police claim to have discovered a dropped ID is a sure indication that the attack on <em>Charlie Hebdo</em> was an inside job and that people identified by NSA as hostile to the Western wars against Muslims are going to be framed for an inside job designed to pull France firmly back under Washington&#8217;s thumb.</code></p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-and-tsarnaev-s#more25297">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-and-tsarnaev-s">Original post</a></small></p></div>Paul Craig Roberts

UPDATE-3: Well known writers Thierry Meyssan and Kevin Barrett see the “terrorist” attach on Charlie Hebdo as a false flag attack. See here and here.

UPDATE-2: According to news reports, one of the accused in the attack on Charlie Hebdo when hearing that he was being sought for the crime turned himself in to police with an ironclad alibi.

UPDATE-1: According to news reports, police found the ID of Said Kouachi at the scene of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Does this sound familiar? Remember, authorities claimed to have found the undamaged passport of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers among the massive pulverized ruins of the twin towers.

Once the authorities discover that the stupid Western peoples will believe any transparent lie, the authorities use the lie again and again.

The police claim to have discovered a dropped ID is a sure indication that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was an inside job and that people identified by NSA as hostile to the Western wars against Muslims are going to be framed for an inside job designed to pull France firmly back under Washington’s thumb.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-and-tsarnaev-s#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25297Trifles for a massacrehttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/09/trifles-for-a-massacre
Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:43:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25296@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=sam+kriss&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;=Search&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Sam Kriss</strong></a></p>
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<p>Who is it that threatens free speech? When the French government bans all Gaza solidarity demonstrations at the height of a vicious massacre in Palestine, it&#8217;s not a threat to freedom of speech: it&#8217;s a public safety measure. When the French state bans Muslim women from wearing the veil in public, it&#8217;s not a threat to freedom of speech: it&#8217;s a defence of secularism. When fanatical Zionists plant a bomb under the car of a French Jewish journalist who won&#8217;t toe the party line on Israel, it&#8217;s not a threat to freedom of speech: it&#8217;s a criminal act, certainly, but not an existential threat to the general ability for you or for me to say whatever we want. In the UK newspaper offices are raided by spies and kids are sent to prison for burning artificial poppies; this isn&#8217;t a threat to free speech either. It&#8217;s strange. The capitalist state, once the existential enemy of all freedom, a monster to be kept constantly under watch, is now the armed guarantor of liberty. Threats to free speech don&#8217;t come from the powerful any more. It&#8217;s &#8220;the Muslims&#8221;: a mass both hydra-headed and faceless, like a handful of worms. A persecuted minority, the suffering conscience of Europe. (Did you know that it&#8217;s now illegal to build minarets in Switzerland? Or that several towns in Italy have banned non-Italian restaurants? Whose freedom is under threat?) Or if it does come from a state, it&#8217;s one far away, surrounded by barbed wire and guns pointing inwards. The poor and the despised: this is who we must defend ourselves against?</p>
<p>How do you exercise free speech? <em>You</em> don&#8217;t do anything. You hoist up your Je <em>suis Charlie</em> placard, you queue in the cold to see a stupid and ugly Seth Rogen film, because this is your duty to the ideal of liberty and free expression. Freedom means obedience. Is this Hegel we&#8217;re reading? You must passively and dutifully admire the courage of those who dare to ruthlessly satirise any and all targets. In other words, those who have stockholders and distribution networks, while you have forty Twitter followers and the right to pen a letter to the editor. Freedom of speech belongs to the brave, the few, the moneyed.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/09/trifles-for-a-massacre#more25296">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/09/trifles-for-a-massacre">Original post</a></small></p></div>Sam Kriss

Who is it that threatens free speech? When the French government bans all Gaza solidarity demonstrations at the height of a vicious massacre in Palestine, it’s not a threat to freedom of speech: it’s a public safety measure. When the French state bans Muslim women from wearing the veil in public, it’s not a threat to freedom of speech: it’s a defence of secularism. When fanatical Zionists plant a bomb under the car of a French Jewish journalist who won’t toe the party line on Israel, it’s not a threat to freedom of speech: it’s a criminal act, certainly, but not an existential threat to the general ability for you or for me to say whatever we want. In the UK newspaper offices are raided by spies and kids are sent to prison for burning artificial poppies; this isn’t a threat to free speech either. It’s strange. The capitalist state, once the existential enemy of all freedom, a monster to be kept constantly under watch, is now the armed guarantor of liberty. Threats to free speech don’t come from the powerful any more. It’s “the Muslims”: a mass both hydra-headed and faceless, like a handful of worms. A persecuted minority, the suffering conscience of Europe. (Did you know that it’s now illegal to build minarets in Switzerland? Or that several towns in Italy have banned non-Italian restaurants? Whose freedom is under threat?) Or if it does come from a state, it’s one far away, surrounded by barbed wire and guns pointing inwards. The poor and the despised: this is who we must defend ourselves against?

How do you exercise free speech? You don’t do anything. You hoist up your Je suis Charlie placard, you queue in the cold to see a stupid and ugly Seth Rogen film, because this is your duty to the ideal of liberty and free expression. Freedom means obedience. Is this Hegel we’re reading? You must passively and dutifully admire the courage of those who dare to ruthlessly satirise any and all targets. In other words, those who have stockholders and distribution networks, while you have forty Twitter followers and the right to pen a letter to the editor. Freedom of speech belongs to the brave, the few, the moneyed.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/09/trifles-for-a-massacre#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25296Something Strange About ISIShttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/04/something-strange-about-isis
Sun, 04 Jan 2015 07:37:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25291@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Gordon+Duff&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Gordon Duff</strong></a></p>
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<p>I recently returned from the Terrorism and Religious Extremism Conference in Damascus. While there, I had the opportunity to meet with Syrian militia leaders. What they had to tell me and show me confirmed some of my suspicions. I already knew that the United States had trained at least 3000 ISIS &#8220;cadre&#8221; leaders at camps in Jordan. Colonel Jim Hanke US Army Special Forces (ret) had accompanied me and spoke of this during the conference.</p>
<p>However, the militia leaders brought evidence. They had photographed not only ISIS dead but their identity papers as well. One group of 74 killed in fighting near Kobani included 15 Ukrainians and 8 Chechens. Others included fighters from Saudi Arabia, Yemen but the rest were from North Africa. There was no gloating over the dead despite the fact the exchange took place in a restaurant at the Damas Rose, a government owned hotel in Syria. There was a sadness, a solemnity about this as even ISIS dead, reputed to be mass murderers, looked no different than others, all young, bearded though many distinctly European.</p>
<p>What was surprising was the lack of curiosity as to how any of these fighters had gotten into Syria in the first place. I had travelled through Lebanon, was picked up by security at the airport and, on the way to Damascus, stopped many times at military checkpoints and subjected to 4 hours of background checks at remote border crossings. Even inside Syria it took hours to get clearance despite carrying a letter from the Minister of Justice.</p>
<p>Simply put, jihadists don&#8217;t just walk through Lebanon. This leaves only two possibilities, they travel through Turkey, something more than obvious or they receive transit across Israel. A cursory examination of the geography of the region leaves only two other remote possibilities. One is that they manage to cross the Red Sea like Moses or they are flown in somehow, magically passing through airport security checkpoints all overseen by Interpol, America&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security and NATO financed security forces.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/04/something-strange-about-isis#more25291">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/04/something-strange-about-isis">Original post</a></small></p></div>Gordon Duff

I recently returned from the Terrorism and Religious Extremism Conference in Damascus. While there, I had the opportunity to meet with Syrian militia leaders. What they had to tell me and show me confirmed some of my suspicions. I already knew that the United States had trained at least 3000 ISIS “cadre” leaders at camps in Jordan. Colonel Jim Hanke US Army Special Forces (ret) had accompanied me and spoke of this during the conference.

However, the militia leaders brought evidence. They had photographed not only ISIS dead but their identity papers as well. One group of 74 killed in fighting near Kobani included 15 Ukrainians and 8 Chechens. Others included fighters from Saudi Arabia, Yemen but the rest were from North Africa. There was no gloating over the dead despite the fact the exchange took place in a restaurant at the Damas Rose, a government owned hotel in Syria. There was a sadness, a solemnity about this as even ISIS dead, reputed to be mass murderers, looked no different than others, all young, bearded though many distinctly European.

What was surprising was the lack of curiosity as to how any of these fighters had gotten into Syria in the first place. I had travelled through Lebanon, was picked up by security at the airport and, on the way to Damascus, stopped many times at military checkpoints and subjected to 4 hours of background checks at remote border crossings. Even inside Syria it took hours to get clearance despite carrying a letter from the Minister of Justice.

Simply put, jihadists don’t just walk through Lebanon. This leaves only two possibilities, they travel through Turkey, something more than obvious or they receive transit across Israel. A cursory examination of the geography of the region leaves only two other remote possibilities. One is that they manage to cross the Red Sea like Moses or they are flown in somehow, magically passing through airport security checkpoints all overseen by Interpol, America’s Department of Homeland Security and NATO financed security forces.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/04/something-strange-about-isis#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25291The Guardian Proclaims The President of Israel as a Hero of 2014http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/02/the-guardian-proclaims-the-president
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:02:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25285@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p>A Short Comment by <a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Gilad+Atzmon&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Gilad Atzmon</strong></a></p>
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<p>Jonathan Freedland, <em>The Guardian</em>&#8217;s prime Hasbara mouthpiece, praised Israeli President Reuven &#8216;Ruvi&#8217; Rivlin yesterday. Freedland <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/31/reuven-rivlin-ruvi-president-israel-likud-palestinian-rights">wrote</a> that that in spite of being a &#8220;lifelong member of Israel&#8217;s Likud party, and on the right of that rightwing bloc&#8230; ever since his elevation to Israel&#8217;s largely ceremonial presidency in June he (President Rivlin) has acted as something like his country&#8217;s conscience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s examine how Freedland justifies his dubious choice for 2014&#8217;s hero.</p>
<p>In November the Israeli cabinet backed a Jewish state bill that would enshrine discrimination against Israel&#8217;s 1.7 million Arab citizens, denying them the full rights of citizenship accorded to Jews. Liberals and leftists denounced the bill, but, according to Freedland, &#8220; the most potent attack came from the presidential mansion.&#8221; Freedland doesn&#8217;t tell the entire truth. The Israeli &#8216;liberals&#8217; (such as war criminal Tzipi Livini) and the hawk President who opposed the bill, didn&#8217;t deny that Israel is a Jewish State, instead they argued that Israel is the Jewish State anyway and the National Bill didn&#8217;t add any new powers.</p>
<p>Though President Rivlin spoke in favour of civil rights, his primary argument was with the true meaning of the new bill &#8211; it exposed the deep intrinsic discrepancy between &#8216;Jewishness&#8217; and &#8216;democracy&#8217;. Speaking against the bill, Rivlin wondered, &#8220;Does this proposal (The National Bill) not in fact encourage us to seek contradiction between the Jewish and democratic characteristics of the state?&#8221; Yes it does.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/02/the-guardian-proclaims-the-president#more25285">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/02/the-guardian-proclaims-the-president">Original post</a></small></p></div>A Short Comment by Gilad Atzmon

Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian’s prime Hasbara mouthpiece, praised Israeli President Reuven ‘Ruvi’ Rivlin yesterday. Freedland wrote that that in spite of being a “lifelong member of Israel’s Likud party, and on the right of that rightwing bloc… ever since his elevation to Israel’s largely ceremonial presidency in June he (President Rivlin) has acted as something like his country’s conscience.”

In November the Israeli cabinet backed a Jewish state bill that would enshrine discrimination against Israel’s 1.7 million Arab citizens, denying them the full rights of citizenship accorded to Jews. Liberals and leftists denounced the bill, but, according to Freedland, “ the most potent attack came from the presidential mansion.” Freedland doesn’t tell the entire truth. The Israeli ‘liberals’ (such as war criminal Tzipi Livini) and the hawk President who opposed the bill, didn’t deny that Israel is a Jewish State, instead they argued that Israel is the Jewish State anyway and the National Bill didn’t add any new powers.

Though President Rivlin spoke in favour of civil rights, his primary argument was with the true meaning of the new bill – it exposed the deep intrinsic discrepancy between ‘Jewishness’ and ‘democracy’. Speaking against the bill, Rivlin wondered, “Does this proposal (The National Bill) not in fact encourage us to seek contradiction between the Jewish and democratic characteristics of the state?” Yes it does.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/02/the-guardian-proclaims-the-president#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25285The CIA's Inquisition: How Terrorism And Conspiracy Theory Became The New Blasphemy And Heresyhttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/01/the-cia-s-inquisition-how
Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:40:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25284@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Saman+Mohammadi&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Saman Mohammadi</strong></a></p>
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<blockquote><p><font size="2"><font color="#000000">"The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. <strong>I can't say that enough</strong>. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language." - Terence McKenna, from a <a href="http://youtu.be/vaB5gg9t1xQ">talk</a> he gave on September 11, 1993.</font></font></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font size="2"><font color="#000000">"As always: combatting Terrorism is not the end of the War on Terror; the War on Terror is the end in itself, and Terrorism is merely its pretext." - Glenn Greenwald, "<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/since_bin_ladens_death/">Since bin Laden&#8217;s death</a>," May 1, 2012.</font></font></p></blockquote>
<p><font size="4"><strong>J</strong></font>ose Rodriguez, one of the CIA's inquisitors, defended torture and the Agency's destruction of evidence on <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31199.htm">CBS's <em>60 minutes</em></a> on Sunday, April 29.</p>
<p>As the former Deputy Director for Operations, Rodriguez committed many war crimes, torture being among them. He is a 21st century version of a Spanish inquisitor. His job is to protect National Security orthodoxies, smear victims with false charges, and sell the lie to the American people that the War on Terrorism is a noble struggle which the CIA must fight with an iron will.</p>
<p>According to CIA inquisitors and their defenders in the press, no questions about CIA policies should be raised because the CIA is holy and pure, while its detractors are just a bunch of conspiracy theorists, left-wing radicals, and Islamofascists. &#8212; As we can see, there are many similarities between the modern charges of terrorism and conspiracy theory made by intelligence agencies and the medieval charges of blasphemy and heresy made by religious authorities. The Catholic Church promised its flock salvation; the National Security State promises its flock security. Neither salvation or security can be delivered by political and religious authorities, but that fact hasn't stopped religion and government from going out of business yet.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/01/the-cia-s-inquisition-how#more25284">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/01/the-cia-s-inquisition-how">Original post</a></small></p></div>Saman Mohammadi

"The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language." - Terence McKenna, from a talk he gave on September 11, 1993.

"As always: combatting Terrorism is not the end of the War on Terror; the War on Terror is the end in itself, and Terrorism is merely its pretext." - Glenn Greenwald, "Since bin Laden’s death," May 1, 2012.

Jose Rodriguez, one of the CIA's inquisitors, defended torture and the Agency's destruction of evidence on CBS's 60 minutes on Sunday, April 29.

As the former Deputy Director for Operations, Rodriguez committed many war crimes, torture being among them. He is a 21st century version of a Spanish inquisitor. His job is to protect National Security orthodoxies, smear victims with false charges, and sell the lie to the American people that the War on Terrorism is a noble struggle which the CIA must fight with an iron will.

According to CIA inquisitors and their defenders in the press, no questions about CIA policies should be raised because the CIA is holy and pure, while its detractors are just a bunch of conspiracy theorists, left-wing radicals, and Islamofascists. — As we can see, there are many similarities between the modern charges of terrorism and conspiracy theory made by intelligence agencies and the medieval charges of blasphemy and heresy made by religious authorities. The Catholic Church promised its flock salvation; the National Security State promises its flock security. Neither salvation or security can be delivered by political and religious authorities, but that fact hasn't stopped religion and government from going out of business yet.

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2015/01/01/the-cia-s-inquisition-how#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25284The Outlook for the New Yearhttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/31/the-outlook-for-the-new
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:04:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25280@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Paul+Craig+Roberts&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts</strong></a></p>
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<p><code>Dear Readers: The conflict that Washington has initiated between the West and Russia/China is reckless and irresponsible. Nuclear war could be the outcome. Indeed, Washington has been preparing for nuclear war since the George W. Bush regime. <br />
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Washington has revised US war doctrine in order to initiate conflict with a first strike nuclear attack. Washington has discarded the ABM treaty in order to build and deploy anti-ballistic missiles that are intended to prevent a retaliatory strike against the US. Washington is engaged in a buildup of military forces on Russia&#8217;s borders, and Washington is demonizing Russia&#8217;s government with false charges.<br />
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As the Bush/Obama regimes dismantled the safeguards put in place in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war, no protests came from the American public or the media. Washington&#8217;s European vassal states have also been silent. <br />
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Washington&#8217;s drive for hegemony has brought nuclear insanity to the world. Moscow and Beijing understand that they are Washington&#8217;s targets. As Larchmonter explains, Russia and China are conjoining their economic and military capabilities in order to protect against Washington&#8217;s attack. Read what Larchmonter reports. Open the URL in my column below and run your cursor over the bottom of the page and click &#8220;page fit.&#8221; Choose 50% and readable text will fill your screen.<br />
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Washington&#8217;s demonization of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad were preludes to military attacks on Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In view of these precedents, it is reasonable to regard Washington&#8217;s demonization of Vladimir Putin as a prelude to military action. Russia is not Iraq, Libya, or Syria. Russian war doctrine states that Russia can use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear or conventional attack on Russia. For the world to sit silent while Washington&#8217;s arrogance provokes armageddon telegraphs total political failure. Where are the voices in behalf of humanity?</code></p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/31/the-outlook-for-the-new#more25280">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/31/the-outlook-for-the-new">Original post</a></small></p></div>Paul Craig Roberts

Dear Readers: The conflict that Washington has initiated between the West and Russia/China is reckless and irresponsible. Nuclear war could be the outcome. Indeed, Washington has been preparing for nuclear war since the George W. Bush regime.

Washington has revised US war doctrine in order to initiate conflict with a first strike nuclear attack. Washington has discarded the ABM treaty in order to build and deploy anti-ballistic missiles that are intended to prevent a retaliatory strike against the US. Washington is engaged in a buildup of military forces on Russia’s borders, and Washington is demonizing Russia’s government with false charges.

As the Bush/Obama regimes dismantled the safeguards put in place in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war, no protests came from the American public or the media. Washington’s European vassal states have also been silent.

Washington’s drive for hegemony has brought nuclear insanity to the world. Moscow and Beijing understand that they are Washington’s targets. As Larchmonter explains, Russia and China are conjoining their economic and military capabilities in order to protect against Washington’s attack. Read what Larchmonter reports. Open the URL in my column below and run your cursor over the bottom of the page and click “page fit.” Choose 50% and readable text will fill your screen.

Washington’s demonization of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad were preludes to military attacks on Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In view of these precedents, it is reasonable to regard Washington’s demonization of Vladimir Putin as a prelude to military action. Russia is not Iraq, Libya, or Syria. Russian war doctrine states that Russia can use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear or conventional attack on Russia. For the world to sit silent while Washington’s arrogance provokes armageddon telegraphs total political failure. Where are the voices in behalf of humanity?

]]>http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/31/the-outlook-for-the-new#commentshttp://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=25280The Victory of ‘Perception Management’http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/30/the-victory-of-perception-management
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:41:00 +0000ragnarUncategorized25279@http://www.a-w-i-p.com/<p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Robert+Parry&amp;sentence=sentence&amp;in_blogs=6"><strong>Robert Parry</strong></a></p>
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<p><em>In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered &#8220;perception management&#8221; to get the American people to &#8220;kick the Vietnam Syndrome&#8221; and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure continues to this day getting the public to buy into endless war.</em></p>
<p><font size="4"><strong>T</strong></font>o understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today&#8217;s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of &#8220;evil&#8221; enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war.</p>
<p>While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn&#8217;t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic propaganda would be needed to ensure that future imperial adventures would have the public&#8217;s eager support or at least its confused acquiescence.</p>
<p>This commitment to what the insiders called &#8220;perception management&#8221; began in earnest with the Reagan administration in the 1980s but it would come to be the accepted practice of all subsequent administrations, including the present one of President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>In that sense, propaganda in pursuit of foreign policy goals would trump the democratic ideal of an informed electorate. The point would be not to honestly inform the American people about events around the world but to manage their perceptions by ramping up fear in some cases and defusing outrage in others &#8211; depending on the U.S. government&#8217;s needs.</p>
<p>Thus, you have the <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/18/the-crazy-us-group-think-on-russia/">current hysteria</a> over Russia&#8217;s supposed &#8220;aggression&#8221; in Ukraine when the crisis was actually provoked by the West, including by U.S. neocons who helped create today&#8217;s humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine that they now cynically blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>Yet, many of these same U.S. foreign policy operatives &#8211; outraged over Russia&#8217;s limited intervention to protect ethic Russians in eastern Ukraine &#8211; <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/29/neocons-noses-into-the-syrian-tent/">are demanding</a> that President Obama launch an air war against the Syrian military as a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; intervention there.</p>
<p>In other words, if the Russians act to shield ethnic Russians on their border who are being bombarded by a coup regime in Kiev that was installed with U.S. support, the Russians are the villains blamed for the thousands of civilian deaths, even though the vast majority of the casualties have been <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/08/seeing-no-neo-nazi-militias-in-ukraine/">inflicted by the Kiev regime</a> from indiscriminate bombing and from dispatching neo-Nazi militias to do the street fighting.</p><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/30/the-victory-of-perception-management#more25279">More &raquo;</a><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/12/30/the-victory-of-perception-management">Original post</a></small></p></div>Robert Parry

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered “perception management” to get the American people to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome” and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure continues to this day getting the public to buy into endless war.

To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war.

While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn’t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic propaganda would be needed to ensure that future imperial adventures would have the public’s eager support or at least its confused acquiescence.

This commitment to what the insiders called “perception management” began in earnest with the Reagan administration in the 1980s but it would come to be the accepted practice of all subsequent administrations, including the present one of President Barack Obama.

In that sense, propaganda in pursuit of foreign policy goals would trump the democratic ideal of an informed electorate. The point would be not to honestly inform the American people about events around the world but to manage their perceptions by ramping up fear in some cases and defusing outrage in others – depending on the U.S. government’s needs.

Thus, you have the current hysteria over Russia’s supposed “aggression” in Ukraine when the crisis was actually provoked by the West, including by U.S. neocons who helped create today’s humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine that they now cynically blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Yet, many of these same U.S. foreign policy operatives – outraged over Russia’s limited intervention to protect ethic Russians in eastern Ukraine – are demanding that President Obama launch an air war against the Syrian military as a “humanitarian” intervention there.

In other words, if the Russians act to shield ethnic Russians on their border who are being bombarded by a coup regime in Kiev that was installed with U.S. support, the Russians are the villains blamed for the thousands of civilian deaths, even though the vast majority of the casualties have been inflicted by the Kiev regime from indiscriminate bombing and from dispatching neo-Nazi militias to do the street fighting.